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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 6h

Oh man. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/16/t...

Anthony Scaramucci tweet on X: "Records are made to be broken. But I take no pleasure in other people's pain." He is re-sharing a post from Joe Scarborough saying "Mooch, we hardly knew ye." They are responding to a new White House press secretary,Katie Zacharia, is leaving her job just five days after starting it...

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Here's the most Musk-focused passage in this opinion...

SCREENSHOT OF JUDGE'S ORDER on 10/13 -- vi. February 11, 2025, Statement by Elon Musk---- On February 11, 2025, Elon Musk, a Special Government Employee and head of DOGE, retweeted on X a photo of Ms. Comans along with the statement, “FEMA CFO Mary Comans was just fired for funneling $58M to illegal migrant hotels in Manhattan” and he called it a “criminal action.” The Government concedes and the Court finds that other than the fact that Ms. Comans had been fired, the post by Mr. Musk was entirely false. The Government further concedes and the Court further findsthat Mr. Musk and officials at FEMA and DHS knew this information was false at the time it was posted. Based on the unchallenged facts and the fact that Mr. Musk was the head of DOGE, he knew or should have known that any payments made to state or local governments through a FEMA grant in February 2025 were approved by his subordinates. Finally, the fact that Mr. Musk posted a picture of Ms. Comans to his millions of followers while falsely characterizing her government service as a “criminal action” was clearly intended to make her afraid. Posting Ms. Comans’ picture served no legitimate governmental interest and was little more than state sanctioned intimidation....

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2026...

Memorandum
Subject: Special Order Response Extension Date: September 29, 2026
To: File
This memo documents an extension of time for Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) to respond to the Special
Order issued on September 10, 2026 in AQ26002. The original due date for Tesla’s response was
September 30, 2026.
On September 18, 2026, Tesla requested an eight-week extension with a new deadline of
November 20, 2026. Tesla attributed the need for additional time to “the voluminous nature of
the request, and the need for Tesla to conduct a diligent search of records, review material for
responsiveness and privilege, and organize and prepare information into thorough narrative
formats in response to each question.”
On September 22, 2026, NHTSA granted Tesla a 30-day extension. The new due date for Tesla’s
response to the Special Order is October 30, 2026.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

SpaceXAI (fka XAI) updated its Terms of Service page to show new brand name of SpaceXSI -- you know, "super intelligence." x.ai/legal/terms-...

screenshot: "Terms of Service - Consumer
Last Updated: October 12, 2026 (previous version)

Welcome to SpaceXSI
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) apply to your or others’ access, interactions and/or use of Grok, Grokipedia, and SpaceXSI’s other services for individuals, including associated applications, features, tools, software and websites (collectively, the “Service”). These Terms form an agreement between you and SpaceXAI LLC (“SpaceXSI,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) when you accept these Terms or when you otherwise access, interact with, and/or use the platform. SpaceXAI LLC is a Nevada company, with its principal place of business at 800 W Cesar Chavez St., Austin, TX 78701, USA. By accessing and using our Service, you acknowledge and agree to these Terms and any other applicable terms and policies, including our Acceptable Use Policy.

Please note:

We reserve the right to modify these Terms.

Our Enterprise Terms of Service govern the use of our Services for developers and businesses, including SpaceXSI APIs and PromptIDE."

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie

batman breaking a gun apart in his hands saying, “THIS IS THE WEAPON OF THE ENEMY.
WE DO NOT NEED IT. WE WILL NOT USE IT.”

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

best hot take quoted in the story:

RDW's accommodation of some Tesla demands conflicts with the role of a regulatory watchdog seeking to protect public safety, said Nynke Vellinga, a senior researcher at University of Groningen in the Netherlands, who specializes in legal aspects of autonomous driving.
"An authority like the RDW needs to be very strong in saying: No, this is what we deem necessary,” she said. “And if we cannot do it, that means that you're not getting approval."
The regulator RDW told Reuters that it conducted an “extensive independent investigation,” which included testing on closed tracks and public roads, in various conditions. RDW declined to specify how it measured safety performance during such testing.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

wonder why spotify lets users block music they don’t like or artists- but not audiobooks, authors, podcasts or their hosts and creators.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

touching grass, dirt, flowers… that is good too, though.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

icymi - on Fri., Elon Musk did an interview with China Media Group in which he said Grok Bot is growing 100% a month... (he also once again praised China's leader and workers and so on. he typically never says, nor can afford to say, anything critical about China) youtu.be/34-5wOGmCKc?...

Screenshot from Elon Musk interview by the state funded news organization China Media Group (in China): https://youtu.be/34-5wOGmCKc?si=cgzz4daKrvDSAXfC&t=345 screenshot says "um and is growing about 100% per month"

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

a vibe that’s happening in sf

flyers on a wooden utility pole. one says “occupy open ai” and has details about a week long protest at the company’s hq on san francisco

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

this lawsuit from california civil rights department is going to trial 9/21 at last

DEPARTMENT OF FAIR EMPLOYMENT AND HOUSING, AN AGENCY OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA vs TESLA, INC.
Case Number: 22CV006830 Filed: 2022-02-09 00:00:00 Judicial Officer:
Category: Civil Rights/Discrimination Type: Civil Unlimited
Date Filed
09/17/2026
Document Name
Judge's memo to clerk - did not settle

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Epstein survivors say they were personally id’d & kicked out of the GOP convention… substack.com/@tarapalmeri...

“substack.com
Tara Palmeri
The Red Letter

One Trump ally offered a blunt explanation for why Epstein survivors may have been kicked out of the
GOP convention:
"Allowing candid conversations to take place on camera could bring truth to light that no one wants."
I've been making calls to find out who made the call.
Watch, read and share. MChartouni
"I don't know how anyone takes the party seriously at this point," one Trump ally told me. "Kicking you out is not only bad policy, but makes the tribalism looks so entrenched that it's frankly getting indefensible for anyone with a tinge of ethics."

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

on the AI existential threat discourse v reality - excerpt

“Designing autonomous, malicious software is generally considered irresponsible and dangerous. If you showed up at Defcon and gave a talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected and damaged someone else's computers, the first question from the audience would be "Why are you so
shit at making secure sandboxes?" It wouldn't be "How are you so
awesome at making hacking tools?"
The fact that OpenAl is making it much easier for unskilled people to break into and damage servers is indeed very bad news, but it's not new bad news. Irresponsible parties have been doing this for years, most notably the NSA. The NSA has…” - Cory Doctorow

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

beauty perched on a streetlamp at a track near me…

bright blue sky in background. a smallish brown & white hawk, likely coopers hawk, perched on a curved round stalk of a large street lamp.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

a source stressed about all this sent me this

prices list on better_claw community on Reddit showing rising prices in AI / coding tools & agents by:
MODEL
INPUT
CACHED
OUTPUT
CONTEXT
BEST AGENT USE

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

a beautiful morning for a walk at fort funston

blue skies and fluffy clouds over grassy hills, and breaking waves at the beach at fort funston in california

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

as soon as i walked up from the BART stop at Embarcadero this morning in SF i saw a Waymo operating with no driver on board. a Tesla Model 3 Uber driver had just passed it. SF livin… (Lyft rental bikes & Zoox were not far off)

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Anyone want to own a fleet of Cybercabs?

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

the test vehicles, fwiw, have steering *yoke*

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

someone direct me to the nearest wood drake habitat?

The Peace of Wild Things by
Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A favorite I have shared before. Thank you, Mr. Berry, especially for the poetry… rest in peace

The Farmer and the Sea
The sea always arriving, hissing in pebbles, is breaking its edge where the landsman squats on his rock. The dark of the earth is familiar to him, close mystery of his source and end, always flowering in the light and always fading. But the dark of the sea is perfect and strange, the absence of any place, immensity on the loose.
Still, he sees it is another keeper of the land, caretaker, shaking the earth, breaking it, clicking the pieces, but somewhere holding deep fields yet to rise, shedding its richness on them silently as snow, keeper and maker of places wholly dark. And in him something dark applauds.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

this is… tryin to have it both ways?

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

the perfume msrp is $88 but the house is not reportedly a $14M house.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Elon Musk is using his company's AI chatbot, Grok, to attack Billie Eilish for living in a society, I guess.

In response to a post promoting her signature fragrance on X- the social network Elon Musk bought, owns and runs- the world's richest man asks his Grok AI chatbot to "please roast Eilish's hypocrisy in hating on capitalism and 'storlen land' while selling perfume and living in luxury on that same land." His post has 3.6M listed views. Grok generates text and then Elon Musk replies to that automated post, "That is far too short and boring. Bet at least a little vulgar, longer and wittier." Grok then generates a text post that says, "Billie Eilish lectures on capitalism and 'stolen land' from her $14M LA palace on Tongva ground while hawking $88 Eilish Intense so fans can reek of her contradiction. The system she trashes funds the mansions, horses, and perfume empire. If it's stolen, stop squatting and hand over the keys instead of cashing checks and spraying eau de bullshit. Peak intense hypocrisy." The Grok generated post has 445k listed views.

A 11-second video clip promoting Billie Eilish's perfume on X, formerly Twitter, showing the singer-songwriter with the bottle of her perfume and looking beautiful. Her post has 14 million listed views. Elon Musk replies below it with a post that has 3.6 million listed views to disrespect her.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

X (fka Twitter, now part of Musk’s SpaceX which merged with X and xAI pre IPO) called out bot activity & posts that were against dirty data centers.

“x.com
* Post
X Global Government Affairs D
@GlobalAffairs
S...
The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations:
We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found
200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about
American Al and energy policy.
These posts contained claims that Al data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included Al-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense.
We remain committed to maintaining an open and authentic platform where people debate topics of public interest. We take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accour violate our Authenticity policy…”

“x.com
These posts contained claims that Al data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included Al-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense.
We remain committed to maintaining an open and authentic platform where people debate topics of public interest. We take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accounts that violate our Authenticity policy.”

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Meta’s market cap is ~1.44 trillion today www.cnbc.com/quotes/META

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

on x, in between posts promoting himself & his companies or their products, tesla & spacex ceo elon musk continues posting his incendiary rhetoric — in case you don’t look in on the platform fka twitter, recent screenshots.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

in her & your honor a few more…

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

sunday sunshine & flowers of golden gate park

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

what does the cybertruck mean to YOU - youtu.be/6wDlXZ3IE94 screenshot of scott hellman’s “mr. record label” it’s the classic genre of a catchy af rock song by an indie artist about how the legacy music industry sucks.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

icymi over on xitter this week, spacex & tesla ceo elon musk has been promoting a new release of grok & grok bot (etc.) while also arguing that derek chauvin, the former officer who killed george floyd, broke no rules or laws.

screenshot of elon musk post on X - --

“Derek Chauvin was unjustly convicted of murder, therefore he should be freed.
The facts show that he was not the cause of death, nor did he at any time intend for a death to occur. Whatever else he may be, he is not a murderer.
That is the truth.” posted at
10:58 AM . Aug 19, 2026 (11.3M Views
11K replies
33K retweets
230K likes
5.4K saves)

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Kay Ryan:

THE WELL OR THE CUP by Kay Ryan-
How can you tell at the start what you can give away and what you must hold to your heart.
What is the well and what is a cup. Some people get drunk up.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Elon Musk has repeatedly praised Restore Britain… www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Restore donor said he hoped there would be
'another Hitler'
Miles Routledge has previously posted anti-Semitic comments and referred to the Nazi leader as 'a great man'

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